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Word: assertation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Turner. In 1995, Turner began to assert controlover World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the othermajor wrestling “league...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Promoter Defends Rowdy Style | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...elimination of moral codes, however, didnot prevent Hemingway from the impossible attemptto assert value, through language and throughaction. As Frederick Henry discovers in A Farewellto Arms, it is precisely because "You could not goback" that you were forced to rebuild. In AFarewell to Arms. Henry discovers that "If you didnot go forward what happened?" The authentictragedy in Hemingway is the hopelessness of thehuman situation: "The world breaks everyone. Butthose that will not break it kills. It kills thevery good and the very gentle and the very braveimpartially." But it is Hemingway's discovery,momentous in his time and in ours...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...five and six instructs searchers "WHERE TO FIND HELP, When," among other mishaps, "Friends Fail," "Lonely" or "Trouble, In." But the men were gone by four o'clock, and I don't know when they'll be back to offer texts of wisdom to everyone else. I can confidently assert, however, that FM has always, does always and will always come out on Thursday mornings, chock full of information on fun stuff to do. And just as those at the wedding in Cana had to drink wine made from water and Mary had to give birth in an inn, those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Look No Further | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...even if U.S. technology is unique, no self-respecting terrorist would be stopped by a software license, and the Russian mafia could certainly hire agents to buy encryption within the United States. The most popular encryption software on the Internet, PGP, is free for download as long as users assert that they are U.S. residents...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Big Brother Wants a Decoder Ring | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...morally obligated to come out of the closet (when we can), to assert vocally our sexuality and to demand the equal rights and public recognition (through marriage and military service) that we are entitled to as citizens. We have the opportunity to live as quiet homosexuals only because more "noisy" queers have pushed the left farther left and created room for us in the center...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: A Moral Obligation | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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